People Skills

This post is part of a series in which LinkedIn Influencers share the best advice they've ever received.Read all the posts here.When I first started out my career as a salesperson for Radio Disney at the age of 22, I was young and foolish (well,...

Dumbfounded. That’s how I felt, as I sat on the end of a phone conversation one spring afternoon in 2009.My wife and I had worked hard to build a word of mouth and social media marketing agency over the two and half years that preceded...

Adam Braun was on the fast track to what many people would consider extraordinary success - at 16 years old, he was already working summers at hedge funds, and stood a chance at becoming a millionaire in his 20's thanks to the Wall Street high...

I read a heck of a lot of business books every year (see this article and this one). But my favorite book of last year was Adam Grant's Give and Take. Many business books (including my own), focus on anecdotes and stories and the lessons...

"Dave, it seems like most thought leaders and authors aren't successful entrepreneurs or operators, and most entrepreneurs and operators aren't successful thought leaders and authors."That's what my friend Mark Roberge said to me last week. Mark is the Chief Revenue Officer at Hubspot, a couple...

As an entrepreneur, focus is everything. In the past, I have certainly suffered from "say yes to everything" syndrome. I was overworked and underfocused. Last month, I had the pleasure of sitting down with fellow LinkedIn influencer and author Greg McKeown, whose new book, Essentialism:...

Finding a job you love and a career you can rise in is no easy feat. I changed my career many times before I realized my passion, and before my wife and I founded Likeable. From a ballpark vendor, to a reality TV star, and...

Via American Express' Tumblr Success and happiness aren't easy to achieve. It takes a lot of time, hard work, and luck to get there. That's why, along the way, you've got to take advantage of moments- those brief periods of time when all can be...

My first job out of college was less than perfect for me. I was selling life insurance in Boston and was unhappy. I wasn't passionate and I didn't feel challenged. My boss had questionable ethics (He would later go to federal jail.) It just wan't...

College graduates: Congratulations on your degrees! I got mine 16 years ago this month at Boston University, and so I thought that, today, I'd share with you 15 simple things I've learned to do since college. Some of them are more serious than others, and...